Printing-press.



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Patented May 11, 1909.

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Patented May 11, 1909.

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tags, tickets, etc. required frequcn FREDERICK W. cEIssnNrLAINER,

or rannnow, NEW JERSEY, AND MATTHEW s. SUMNER,-

, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PBIWGFPRESS.

Patented may 11, 1909.

Application fled MW 19, 1808. Serial H0- 45 ,332.

To all whom it may comm:

Be it known that we, Fnunnmcx W. GELSSENHAINEB and Msrrnnw S. Colman, citizens of the United States of America, and residing, respectively, at Freehold, in the county of Monmouth and State of New Jer-r se and New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Printing-Presses, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to printing presses and the object thereof is to provide a manually operable press for use in stores, offices, and the like, for the printing of slips, price t y and in quantity, either with permanent, variable, or both permanent and variable subect matter; another object being to rovi e such a press which prints from a roll of paper; an: other object being to provide means fordew taching the printed objects from, the said roll of paper; and another object being to provide means for feeding the said paper to the printing mechanism, and also to. provide means whereby but one of either the feeding mechanism or the detaching mechanism is operable at one time.

. Our invention is fully described in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which the separate parts are designated by the same reference characters in all of the views, and in which a Figure 1 is a right hand elevation of our printing press, ready for use; Fig. 2 is a left enlarged view of another detail; Fig. 11 is a partial section on the line 11-11 of Fi 1; and Fig. 12 is a view of certain gears w 'ch we em loy.

In t e drawings forming apart of this ap-- plication, we have shown a frame or support whereby the eel section on the line 9-9 of Fig. 8; Fig. 10 is an its which is frictionally held against too fr movement by means of a brake c and which carries a roll of paper (1 upon which the printing is to he rformed, said per being carried forwar ly between gui es (1. and a. to the printing mechanism. At the opposite end of the frame a, near the topthereof, is a power shaft 1), provided with a hand wheel I) by means of which it is rotated, and said shaft carries a mutilated gear 11 at the right hand end and a similar gear 5* at the left hand end thereof.

Directly beneath the shaft '11, at the right hand side of the frame, is a stud 0 upon which are mounted a Geneva gear 0 operated by the mutilated gear 11 and an ordinary gear which is connected with and rotated in y the Geneva gear the gear 0 being enmeshed with a gear 0 to the rear thereof and which is secured to a shaft 0 having a feed roller 0 mounted thereon and rotated thereby, while above the roller 0, in each side of the frame a, are slide blocks a which carry a roller 0 which is forced into contact with the roller 0 by means of springs c, and forming the paper feeding mechanism. The gear 0 also engages a gear d, on the opposite side thereof, and, which is mounted upon a shaft d which carries the platen roller (1 provided with a blanket d of suitable material detachably mounted. thereon, and the gear d is also enmeshed with a' gear d directly thereover, with which is connected the printing roller (3 and upon which is mounted an electrotype d in the usual or any desired manner.

The printing roller d is recessed to receive readily removable type c, intended for subject matter reipiiring frequent changing, said being he (1 by means of a block e pivoted at e to the roller, said block being normally forced against the type e by means of springs e, clearly shown in Figs. 8 and 9,

1 and, in order to release the pressure of the block from the ty' we provide a hole a in the said block a apted to engage a pin or i other suitable e uivalent, as shown in Flg. 9,

block may be moved upon ivot, against the s rings. i o the rear of the p aten roller 01 is a rigidly but dctachably mounted blade f, beneath the paper strip, while above the said paper, and operating in conjunction with the blade f, is a knife or blade f movable verticelly in suitable guides by means of a finger a which carries a rollers) at one end thereof, lb on the shaft 12 and, when said finger moves l (l cure the knife f 2 downwardly, the paper strip is cut into certain lengths, after which the knife is again drawn upwardly by means of springs f connected with an overhead sup- 5 port f.

on the other end thereof, said levers having each an arm 71, pivotally connected therewith and which carry the ink rollerh".

Connected with each side of the frame a,

above the printing roller, is a track i provided with a depression 77 to receive wheels '5 connected with the ink roller and which move on said tracks and, as shown at i, we provide springs to control or insure the contact of said wheels with said tracks.

I Rotatably mounted at 70, upon the support f is an ink plate k which carries an annular ratchet 70 upon its under side, and also pivoted-at 7c is a levef 7c, which carries a pawl 70 provided with a counterbalance 7c, and which is adaptedto be moved forwardly by a post 7c upon the lever 7L7, and rearwardly by means of a contractile spring 7c", and, as will be seen in Figs. 1, 4, 5 and 6, the pawl 70' is in oplerative connection with the ratchet k and en the levers k and 7L are moved forwardly by the rotation of the Geneva gear h the lever k isalso moved forwardly and the pawl thereon rfitates the ink plate k over which the ink roller moves, and when the ink 4o roller is in the position of the depressions i it is, permitted to touch the type faces on the printin roller, as shown in Fig. 6, after which t e ink roller again passes over the ink plate for re-inking, into the position shown in Fig. 5.

In the operation of our invention, the end --of the paper strip is passed between the guides of and a, thence between the rollers c and c and thence between the printing and platen rollers and the press is ready for use. In the position of the parts shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 4, the mutilated or toothless portion of the gear 6 is about to engage the Geneva tooth of the gear 0 iipon rotation of the wheel 5 in the direction of the arrow, and

when these'parts are so engaged, the. feeding rollers, as well as the printing roller an platen are held inactive, but the shaft 1) still rotat g, the finger b thereon moves the knife f 2 downwardly and the paper strip is cut, forming a slip or ticket of a esired size;

' and, when the finger 12* passes the said knife,

the latter is free to rise by means of its springsf At the beginning of this movement, the

I mutilated part of the gear b has passed the sending to a printing establishment.

Geneva tooth of the gear 72, and the latter is being rotated, thereby moving the ink roller over the ink plate, upwardly, and afterward downwardly into the position of inking the type faces shown in Fig. 6, at which time the mutilation of b and Geneva tooth of h? are in conjunction and the gear h is inactive, thereby holding the ink roller in this position. At Q approximately the moment the ink roller reaches this position, the teeth of the gears b and c are again enmeshed and the rollers c and 0 again feed the paper and the printing roller and platen are again rotated, there by moving the detached slip of paper and printing the same until the Geneva gear 0 is again rendered inactive, when the operation described is repeated.

By means of this invention it is possible to print and detach tickets or the like from the paper roll at great speed and with a high character of printing and it-is evident that our press is applicable to a great variety of uses and can be built of a size depending upon the class of work to be performed thereon, being particularly adapted, however, as hereinbefore stated, to use in offices and the like for the printing of filing slips,

tickets, etc. which are required daily or even hourly, with chan ed subject matter, and which could not wait for the usual method of 7 It will also be apparent that the electrotype can be quickly replaced by another, if desired, and means for adjusting the size of the detached slip can easily be added to.our machine, it being preferable, however, that a machine be constructed for each specific use and various other changes in and modifications of the form of construction shown and described may be made, and reserving the right to all such modifications, within the scope of the following claims, 1

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A printing press, comprising aframe having a roll of paper thereon, a power shaft, a printing roller having type thereon actuated by said shaft, an inking roller, a gear for actuating the same and a mutilated gear on said shaft and intermittently actuating said gear and thereby said ink roller.

2. A printing press, comprising a frame havin a roll of paper thereon, a power shaft, a mutilated gear at one end thereof, printing mechanism actuated intermittently thereby, a mutilated gear on the other end of said shaft, inking devices actuated intermittently thereby, said movements occurring alternately.

3. A printing press, comprising a frame having a roll of paper thereon, a power shaft, a printing roller having type detachably mounted thereon and actuated by said shaft, an inking roller, a gear for actuating the same and a mutilate gear. on said shaft for intermittently actuating said gear and thereby said ink roller.

4. A printing, press, comprising a frame having a roll of paper thereon, a power shaft, a printing roller having type thereon and actuated by said shaft, an ink roller, agear for actuating the same, a mutilated gear on said shaft for intermittently actuating said gear, an ink plate and means for rotating the same in the movement of said ink roller.

5. A printing press, comprising a frame having a roll of paper thereon, a power shaft, a mutllated gear on one end thereof, printing mechanism actuated intermittently thereby, a mutilated gear on theotherend of sa1d shaft, inkin devices actuated intermittently thereby an paper cutting means in operative connection with said shaft.

6. A printing press, comprising a frame having a roll of paper thereon, a power shaft, a mutilated gear at one end of said shaft, a printing roller, a platen roller, feeding rollers, sa1d rollers being actuated intermittently by said -mutilated gear, a mutilated gear on the other end of said shaft, pivoted arms, an ink roller carried thereby, and a gear in operative connection with said arms and actuated intermittently by said last named mutilated gear.

7. A printing press, comprising a frame havin a roll of paper thereon, a power shaft, a mutllated gear on one end thereof, a stud, a gear thereon in operative connection with sa1d mutilated gear, a feeding roller, a printing roller, a platen roller, a gear on each of said rollers and a supplemental gear on said stud for actuating said rollers when said first named gear is actuated.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our invention we have signed our names in presence of the subscribing witnesses this 13th day of October, 1908.

FREDERICK -W. GEISSENHAINER. MATTHEW S. GUMNER.

Witnessesz. 4

TRYON J. M. JEWELL, ARTHUR M WHEELER. 

